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The group, called a Project Advisory Committee, was formed to address traffic flow concerns along U.S. 521, as well as to look at economic development in the area.

Made up of several local officials, the committee includes representatives from Lancaster County Council, Lancaster County Water and Sewer District, Lancaster County School District, the University of South Carolina at Lancaster and Indian Land Action Council.

After almost two hours of heated discussion Monday, Lancaster County Council voted to consider closing the Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Department at its next meeting.

Council chambers was packed with Pleasant Hill residents Monday night, most who were against a proposal to close the fire department.

The discussion was in response to the Lancaster County Fire Commission’s 12-5 vote in June to close the Pleasant Hill department. The commission is an advisory board to County Council. The final decision on the issue rests with council.

Lancaster County Council approved an ordinance Monday that will assist with the construction of a new Pleasant Valley fire station.

The ordinance authorized the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds not to exceed $2.5 million. The proceeds of the bonds will be used for constructing and equipping a fire station in the Pleasant Valley Fire Protection District. No one spoke at a public hearing held before the vote on the bonds.

With several projects almost completed and many more on the way, Traci Carnes says the local Habitat for Humanity is having a good year.

Carnes, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Lancaster County, says work on the organization’s Caskey Lane project in Lancaster should be complete within the next six to eight weeks. The organization has been building two single-family homes in the neighborhood.

Carnes was impressed with the more than 30 volunteers who showed up during the Habitat affiliate’s first “build day.”

A year after county residents learned about high levels of contaminates in the water supply, a new water treatment process will be initiated that aims to deplete those contaminates.

The Lancaster County Water and Sewer District will change how it treats water at its Catawba River water plant starting in September. The treatment plant will replace free chlorine in its water with chemicals called chloramines.

The change is being made primarily because of Environmental Protection Agency regulations and is intended to improve the water disinfection process.

Authorities still aren’t releasing much information about a shooting that left a Lancaster man dead last week.

Lancaster County Coroner Mike Morris said Tuesday that autopsy results have come back on the body of Larry Curtis Duncan, 26, who was fatally shot and found lying in the front yard of a North Willowlake Road home early Friday.

However, Morris said he would not disclose the cause of death or any related information because the shooting remains under heavy investigation.